Babel thus takes its place quietly among the other myths of the Bible.
It renounces authority, cuts athwart custom, violates the sacred, rejects the myths.
Most myths have a certain justification in their beauty, in their symbolism of high truth.
As handled by the Greeks from prehistoric times, the constellation myths became the very soul of poetry.
To visit such a family, was to find one's self confronted by a congress made up of representatives of the imperial myths and the majestic dead of all the ages.
The impressive phenomena which characterize it, the prodigious noise, the awful flash, the portentous gloom, the blast, the rain, have left a profound impression on the myths of every land.
Writers anxious to discover Jewish or Christian analogies, forcibly construed myths to suit their pet theories, and for indolent observers it was convenient to catalogue their gods in antithetical classes.
Among the myths attached to his memory in the Ethiopic "history" is one which explains how "he knew and comprehended the length and breadth of the earth", and how he obtained knowledge regarding the seas and mountains he would have to cross.